the total cost to the economy $1.7 trillion. but guess what? it is $250,000 a year in additional tax cuts to those same 120,000 families and anybody that makes more than $1 million. ladies and gentlemen, all this has a cost. there is something called the tax policy center made up of experts. they did an analysis if they did all of these tax proposals. they point out that if romney ryan were elected, it would increase taxes by middle-class families by $2,000 a year. ladies and gentlemen, we have seen this movie before. we have seen this movie before. massive tax cuts for the very wealthy, letting wall street and big banks writing their own rules again. we know how it ended. it ended in a catastrophe for the middle class. ladies and gentlemen, i am telling you today, we will not go back to that. [cheers and applause] we can't go back to that policy. america can't afford to go back to that policy! ladies and gentlemen, the president and i have a different way forward. let me tell you what our plan is. in addition, we have created over five million